The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) unveiled videos recorded by Chandrayaan 3’s Vikram lander on Friday. One of the videos, filmed by the Lander Position Detection Camera (LPDC) on August 15 while attached to the Propulsion Module, provides a clear view of Moon craters. Another video, captured by the Lander Imager (LI) Camera-1, offers a glimpse of Earth, albeit in a smaller form.
In the first video, recorded on Indian Independence Day, the moon’s dark side is seen where the Lander will attempt a soft touchdown on August 23, reports Hindustan Times.
In the second video, Earth can be seen with the moon in the background. The video is captured just after the landing module and propulsion module separation, successfully undertaken by ISRO on Thursday. The visuals also show far-side lunar impact craters including Fabry, Giordano Bruno and Harkhebi J.
Russia’s Luna-25 automatic station flying in a circular orbit of the artificial satellite of the Moon has taken a picture of the lunar surface with television cameras of the STS-L complex. The image shows the southern polar crater Zeeman on the back side of the Moon. The coordinates of the crater centre correspond to 75 degrees south latitude and 135 degrees west longitude, the country’s state space corporation Roscosmos said in a post on the social media platform Telegram on Thursday.
Invisible from the Earth crater Zeeman — a unique object on the lunar surface and is of great interest to researchers — the height of the surrounding shaft reaches 8 kilometers above the surface of a relatively flat bottom, it added.
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